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CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#111

This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…

Next up - Cloudstrike.com?

Clownflare.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132328#41133504

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#112
post #10

I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.

Well it worked out for Beyonce and when she trademarked her kids name https://www.bet.com/article/86lls7/beyonce-wins-blue-ivy-tra...

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#113

What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…

The offending TLD here is .lol, which is not one of the TLDs they support. This would not have helped in this instance.

https://globalblock.co/included-extensions/

I'm also seeing much higher pricing:

https://www.101domain.com/global-block.htm

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#114
post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

I actually thought CSC was a parody website ... it just seems a bunch of buzzword fluff and no products. Just "solutions" which at other companies is usually code for "we don't actually have anything to sell".

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#115
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright infringement" You mean "genuine trademark infringement".

Touché, thank you!

To be fair, they actually sent a copyright infringement notice for this alleged trademark infringement. You were just describing their behavior!

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#116
post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage.

Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#117
I'd have guessed the legal team would have better ways to spend its time right now than pursuing action against an obvious parody. So, this seems like it could be an empty threat to me. But if they intend to proceed, they'd better hurry before Crowdstrike itself collapses under the weight of the lawsuits against it.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

#118
post #102

If ClownStrike wanted to take down the site they should deploy another buggy update. They will take the site down along with the rest of the Internet…

Only those sites that continue to allow every CrowdStrike update to go instantly to every device without any sanity testing would be hit by the next one. Competent IT departments will recognize that they can't risk their business in this way any more. Airlines in particular will have to recognize that they can't afford the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses that could come from a repeat of this, from either CrowdStrike or Microsoft, and come up with a way to update only test systems first.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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post #114
post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

I actually thought CSC was a parody website ... it just seems a bunch of buzzword fluff and no products. Just "solutions" which at other companies is usually code for "we don't actually have anything to sell".

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